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First look at Warner Marine’s blue-trimmed MF series cone protein skimmers

Warner Marine’s Skimz-built cone protein skimmers are almost ready for release and in these final production shots you can see how Warner has made these skimmers their own. The Warner Marine MFseries…

Hands on with PO4x4, not your typical phosphate removing media

PO4X4 is a novel phosphate removing resin which at first glance may seem like granular ferric oxide (GFO), but the similarities end with the color of the media. The shape and size of PO4X4 is like tiny little beads about…

Kessil LED signs first aquarium wholesale distribution agreement

Kessil Lighting has been busy lately getting its unique LED lighting deeper into the aquarium market and just announced signing VASCA Aquarium Supply as the company’s first aquarium wholesaler to carry the Kessil line. The Arizona-based aquarium supply distributor will…

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August 1st– 8th Coralife set to release new Evolve LED based off of recent trademark filing Black Snowflake clownfish coming soon from ORA Papercuts and Stray Voltage in the marine aquarium Nuvo Aquarium Micro 30 and Mini 38 are…

Tunze video response challenges the conclusions, not the data, of the propeller pump study

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLkW1-6HbQk[/youtube] Make no mistake about it, the video uploaded hours ago by Tunze Gmbh is a direct response to the results of the propeller pump study published a couple weeks back. The nearly ten minute long video first…

Saltwater Fish

Sustainable Aquatics’ Color-Changing Ocellaris Clownfish is a pretty wild mutation

Tennessee-based Sustainable Aquatics is releasing a new variety of Ocellaris Clownfish this week that they are calling the Color-Changing Ocellaris. These fish are the offspring from a single pair of normal Amphiprion ocellaris. Some of the offspring randomly undergo a…

Dyed animals still an unfortunate reality in the reef aquarium hobby

When we think of dyed corals and anemones in the aquarium trade, the first thing we picture is grainy low quality images from the generic reef aquarium books of the 1980s and 1990s. Imagine our surprise when we saw the…

Cute mounting bracket coming soon for TMC’s MiniLED 400

The TMC MiniLED 400 mounting bracket is coming soon to elegantly suspend life giving photons over your nano aquarium. Tropical Marine Centre’s MiniLED 400 is a nano LED aquarium light that launched earlier this summer with 12 watts between four…

Meet the sailfin jawfish, a little known deepwater caribbean beauty

Rabaulichthys anthias are not the only fish in the reefs to sport elaborate dorsal finnage. Check out the beast of a jawfish that is the sail-fin jawfish, this specimen being tentatively identified as Opistognathus lonchurus. Hailing from the Western Atlantic, the…